Bug 290681

Summary: xmaxima is not working, jfa: starting server on port 4008 couldn't open socket:
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Antonio A. Olivares <olivares14031>
Component: maximaAssignee: Rex Dieter <rdieter>
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Description Antonio A. Olivares 2007-09-14 12:05:41 UTC
Description of problem:
xmaxima or maxima-gui fails to start.  


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net


How reproducible:
Start xmaxima from Menu 


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Just click on xmaxima from gnome/kde
2.  maxima fails to start
3.
  
Actual results:
[olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qf `which xmaxima`
maxima-gui-5.13.0-4.fc6
[olivares@localhost ~]$ xmaxima
Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) [olivares@localhost ~]$ 


Expected results:
xmaxima was working fine.  maxima(CLI) works fine only gui is failing.  

[olivares@localhost ~]$ maxima
Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) solve(x^2-2*x-1=0,x);
(%o1)                 [x = 1 - sqrt(2), x = sqrt(2) + 1]
(%i2) quit();
[olivares@localhost ~]$  


Additional info:
If you need more info please let me know.

[olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa maxima*
maxima-5.13.0-4.fc6
maxima-gui-5.13.0-4.fc6
maxima-runtime-gcl-5.13.0-4.fc6

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2007-09-14 12:17:35 UTC
What version of wxMaxima $(rpm -q wxMaxima) ?

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2007-09-14 12:18:31 UTC
And what arch (i386, x86_64, ...)?

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2007-09-14 12:21:56 UTC
nevermind about wxMaxima, you're not using that... :)

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2007-09-14 12:24:38 UTC
regardless, I'd recommend you do try wxMaxima, it's a much nicer gui than xmaxima

Comment 5 Antonio A. Olivares 2007-09-14 22:13:48 UTC
[olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -iprm
2.6.22.4-45.fc6 i686 i686 i386
[olivares@localhost ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@localhost ~]# yum install wxMaxima
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for wxMaxima to pack into transaction set.
wxMaxima-0.7.2-1.fc6.i386 100% |=========================| 6.5 kB    00:00     
---> Package wxMaxima.i386 0:0.7.2-1.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_baseu_xml-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6.2) for package:
wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0(WXU_2.6) for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0 for package: wxMaxima
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for wxGTK to pack into transaction set.
wxGTK-2.6.3-2.6.3.2.3.fc6 100% |=========================|  24 kB    00:00     
---> Package wxGTK.i386 0:2.6.3-2.6.3.2.3.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing:
 wxMaxima                i386       0.7.2-1.fc6      extras            524 k
Installing for dependencies:
 wxGTK                   i386       2.6.3-2.6.3.2.3.fc6  extras            3.5 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 4.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): wxMaxima-0.7.2-1.f 100% |=========================| 524 kB    00:00     
(2/2): wxGTK-2.6.3-2.6.3. 100% |=========================| 3.5 MB    00:01     
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: wxGTK                        ######################### [1/2] 
  Installing: wxMaxima                     ######################### [2/2] 

Installed: wxMaxima.i386 0:0.7.2-1.fc6
Dependency Installed: wxGTK.i386 0:2.6.3-2.6.3.2.3.fc6
Complete!

I have installed wxMaxima and it does not work either.


[root@localhost ~]# wxmaxima 

** (wxmaxima:4474): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

When I try to do something, wxmaxima returns

Not connected to maxima!


At home, I have another FC6 machine without updates and maxima,and xmaxima work
without problems.  I put only kernel updates on that machine.

Thanks,

Antonio 

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2007-10-11 13:37:22 UTC
See also bug #322171
Please double-check that your /etc/hosts entry for localhost exists and is 
correct.

Comment 7 Antonio A. Olivares 2007-10-15 01:08:00 UTC
Rex,

sorry for not responding earlier, but the machine which had the problem, I
decided to install Rawhide.  I am no longer having that problem.  I have another
fc6 machine at home which maxima is working fine without the updates, maxima is
at 5.12.  What can I do to help?  At home I am on dialup and updating it will
take a long time plus fedora core 6 is almost end of line, so I am in the middle
of a problem.  I am sorry to cause problems, what should I do?

at home the machine has the localhost.localdomain and 127.0.0.1 hosts but it did
not have this problem.  It only happened on the fedora core 6 machine which
became a rawhide machine.  

Thanks,

Antonio  

Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2007-11-11 23:10:27 UTC
Looks like it was most likely /etc/hosts, localhost at issue here.

If you can still reproduce the problem, feel free to reopen with any new details.